The Column-09-22-2015

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Vol 11 No 17 The Column September 22, 2015 Europe and Asia PDF

September 22, 2015

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Vol 11 No 17 The Column September 22, 2015 North American PDF

September 22, 2015

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Searching for Salt in Historical Buildings

September 21, 2015

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A team of scientists has analyzed and evaluated the impact of salt weathering on an historical house using a combination of ion chromatography (IC), chemometrics, and thermodynamic chemical modelling.

LC–MS Analysis of Rock Cores

September 21, 2015

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Microbial life is possible within the Earth’s mantle, according to new research. High performance liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (HPLC–MS) analysis of rock cores sampled from the Iberian plate margin (off the coast of Spain and Portugal) revealed the presence of lipid biomarkers indicative of microbial communities present beneath the seafloor more than 100 million years ago.

Phenomenex and Tecan Announce Marketing Partnership

September 21, 2015

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Phenomenex (Torrance, California, USA) and the Tecan Group (Männedorf, Switzerland) have announced a new collaboration to co-market automated solid-phase extraction (SPE) products.

Purnendu “Sandy” Dasgupta Awarded $1 Million NASA Grant

September 21, 2015

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Purnendu “Sandy” Dasgupta, Hamish Small Chair in Ion Analysis of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the UT Arlington College of Science, has been awarded almost $1 million from NASA. The grant will support research into extension of the open-tubular capillary chromatography platform that Dasgupta developed for the detection and separation of ions.